Is Little Women a Feminist Work? In this Essay I will...
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Academic sources:
Grasso, Linda. “Louisa May Alcott's ‘Magic Inkstand’: Little Women, Feminism, and the Myth of Regeneration.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 1998, pp. 177-192. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3347148. Accessed 8 Jan. 2021.
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Foote, Stephanie. “Resentful ‘Little Women’: Gender and Class Feeling in Louisa May Alcott.” College Literature, vol. 32, no. 1, 2005, pp. 63-85. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25115246. Accessed 8 Jan. 2021.
I enjoyed what you said about the importance of stories about/from women, and how they are valued differently. the male gaze is so pervasive in the world of literature
I'm making a presentation on this topic right now and I cannot even begin to express how helpful this video was to me. I loved bouncing ideas off of you and it was so much more valuable than all the (still amazing) sources out there specifically because I saw a well-read ~actual~ person in front of me speaking about the topic in such an organized and lovely fashion! This deserves so so much more attention because even outside of the specific context of the book it opens up a very interesting discussion so once again THANK YOU and MY MY DID I LOVE THIS
listened to this on my autumn morning walk watching the sun come up, with some coffee in hand. it was perfect 🧡🍂☕ made me think of reading more on alcott's life as the fact about her mother was so unexpected and fascinating. thank you for a beautifully made video on such a good topic!
Your analysis is amazing 😍 When you really get into the text, you realise there is so much more to it than just 'here is an early feminist work' and you deconstruct and analyse all that so well!
This is such an excellent analysis of this question. Have loved this book since childhood as it focuses on sisterhood and female coming of age . Thank you for this
Jo was indeed my favorite character!
This was a great video essay and has reminded me of how much I enjoy the story. I always loved Jo and so much wanted to be like her, even though I recognized I’m much more like Beth. When you briefly mentioned the sequel Good Wives, I had to look it up because when my grandma gave me Little Women, she gave me Little Men and then later I got Jo’s Boys. I never knew until today that I was missing a book, now I’ll have to get it.
This video is so thoroughly researched - it deserves so many more views!!! As a long time Alcott fan, thanks for this content :)
Also curious if you had come across this quote by Lou before - "I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man’s soul put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body … because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man." :0
OT (didn't really know where to write you about this) : could you include the main sources of your podcast episodes in the episode description (fyi I'm tuning in via Spotify) ? I'd be interested in reading the books/other sources that informed your opinion.
1994 LW is feminist
2019 LW is deconstructionist
This is an amazing analysis
Very interesting
Are girl's stories equally dismissed by all genders? Are they overlooked for the same or different reasons?
There's two answers to the first question:
1) Historically speaking yes and I feel there is a clear bias in academia, however, it's a multifaceted topic since for a long time white men ruled the literary sphere, therefore we didn't have varied literary works or discourse from women, even if people were willing to give them a chance.
2) In today's world, I don't think things have radically changed in academia BUT if we look at works like The Hunger Games we can see a shift taking place in popular literature where stories about young girls/women outside of a domestic/romantic sphere are starting to have a mass appeal with intellectualized discourse.
For your second question, the short answer is:
I would argue female works are largely understated and overlooked because women are largely understated and overlooked. Male supremacy is embedded into both girls and boys from an early age in our society and this affects how we perceive women and their contributions.
Of course people also have their subjective reasons as well.
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i will finish this later,,i will be back ;)